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It's amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers, and tuna sandwiches. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children, and damaged our health. To expose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon, and other pollutants.

Do you read the same page over and over without realizing it? Do you need a tool to understand a lot of complex text in a short amount of time? Introducing the STOP reading method; a powerful tool that helps you save time so that you can focus on what's really important: understanding your reading. The STOP reading method incorporates four of the most powerful strategies available to help readers, even with lower ability levels. With STOP, you will learn techniques for scanning and predicting, critical questioning, selective reading and summarizing most effectively.

The gun is antiquated technology, and it is responsible for tens of thousands of senseless killings every year. Humanity has accepted that killing is an unavoidable fact of life - but Rick Smith argues that it doesn’t need to be this way and that we have the means to make the bullet obsolete in our lifetime. Smith is the founder of TASER (now Axon), and in this book, he demonstrates that change won't come by way of stricter gun control laws. No, what holds us back is our skepticism about new technologies and their potential.